Ceremony | Glossary

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Definition:

Ceremony is a ritualistic or symbolic activity, performed on well-defined occasions. In Agile Development, ceremony is referred to as the core Scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Ceremony is also defined as a Scrum practice that involves taking action or performing a process, for example, sprint-planning activity, daily scrum activity, sprint review activity, and sprint retrospective activity. In general all these activities are the work performed by the Scrum team members such as writing code, performing tests, creating estimates, and so on.

Meetings, or “ceremonies” are an important part of agile development. A number of these ceremonies come from the practice of scrum which is an iterative, time-boxed approach to implementing agile. The concepts behind these ceremonies can be applied to other forms of agile like kanban or lean.

Further Reading:

Book: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide by Craig Larman

Book: Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process by Bob Aiello, Leslie Sachs

DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations | Book Series

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Overview:

This is a truly practical companion book to the other leading publications in the DevOps space. Mirco shares real-world lessons from many years of collective experience and provides tried and tested exercises for you to use to help drive insights and improvements in your organization. A pragmatic view on IT and DevOps that doesn’t just focus on the ‘what’ but the ‘how’ based on first-hand experience. Mirco knows his stuff. He has a way of stating simple choices and framing options that encourage action. His unique perspective on how to transform your IT organization, especially when you have heavily invested in outsourcing, are both thoughtful and practical.

After you read his book, make sure to subscribe to his blog. You want to make sure to have Mirco by your side as you go through this transformation. This is a much needed book on building teamwork to drive technology infrastructure efforts. Mirco introduces a simple set of processes and well reasoned principles to align the organization, transform technology infrastructure, and deliver value for customers.

Authors:

Mirco Hering

Published In:

2018